Posted in Awesome Korean Things, Korean Adventures, Korean Things, Random Korean Things, South Korea, Uncategorized, tagged Korean marry pillow, man marries pillow on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In Korea, yes you can.
A Korean man has married his dakimaura, a.k.a. a body pillow with a
Japanese anime girl drawn on it.
The girl depicted on the newlywed pillow is Fate Testarossa from the
anime Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Recently, a man in Japan also married a character from a computer
game. These two marriages to inanimate spouses has [...]
Posted in ESL, Jeollanamdo, Mokpo, South Korea, Suncheon, me on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week was my first week back at school. There have been many changes over the winter break. Changes I thought would never happen at my school. For the past two years, I have been teaching (or trying) to teach classes of 30 teens English without the support of the Korean teachers at school. Some [...]
Posted in ESL, Jeollanamdo, Mokpo, South Korea, tagged one less class on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At my high school for the past two years, there have been eight of each grade (1,2,3). Korean teachers across Jeollanamdo have been laid off and as a result, high school first graders have been compressed into seven classes at my school. I now teach fifteen classes a week instead of sixteen. Both classes I [...]
Posted in ESL, South Korea, tagged coming to korea?, new teachers korea on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This should be read by anyone who will be coming to Korea for the first time or is thinking about coming to Korea for the first time. Roboseyo’s open letter can be found here.
Posted in Jeollanamdo, Mokpo, Photographs, South Korea, Uncategorized, tagged Mokpo, Mokpo Snow, Snow Mokpo on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I woke up this morning to a white Mokpo. It snowed last night (and parts of today)! It’s great to see snow fall again here in Mokpo. It was also a great oppurtunity to play with my new camera and got quite a few shots of the white morning. I have put most of my [...]
Posted in Jeollanamdo, Korean Adventures, Mokpo, Random Korean Things, South Korea, Uncategorized on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A drunken man ran into the sea in order to avoid a field sobriety test by police.
According to Mokpo Police Agency in the southwest port city, South Jeolla Province, the 30-year-old man encountered police late Monday after heavily drinking liquor and police requested him to take the test.
However, the man, identified only by his surname [...]
Posted in Jeollanamdo, Konglish, South Korea, Uncategorized, tagged Konglish on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Waydaldo is a small island off the coast of Mokpo that has a decent beach for swimming. It’s roughly a 50 minute ferry from the Mokpo Ferry Terminal and you can get a return ticket for 8,000 Won. One of my favorite things about the island (aside from swimming at the beach) is the sign. [...]
Posted in ESL, Korean High School ESL Lessons, Mokpo, South Korea, tagged ESL, ESL Phobias on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I did this lesson last week with my high schoolers. I began the lesson by asking them what they have a fear of (spiders, insect, mouse). I then gave them a brief definition of a phobia and told them three phobias I have and asked them to try and guess what they are. I then [...]
Posted in Mokpo, South Korea, tagged Konglish on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes the name you may want to name a business should be checked to make sure it’s not funny or odd. Brown Scent is one example. What do you think of when you hear someone say Brown Scent?
Posted in Awesome Korean Things, Jeollanamdo, Korean High School ESL Lessons, Mokpo, South Korea, tagged ESL Halloween, ESL South Korea on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is late but better late than never. For Halloween this year I talked with my kids about horror movies and monsters and set them loose on making a monster in groups of four. They had to do a write up on their monster. They had to tell the class the name of the monster, [...]
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